Tag: No Man's Sky
News No Man's Sky Is Bringing Back Limited-Time Expeditions Over Next Two Months
Those interstellar goodies could still be yours
Hello Games is bringing back limited-time Expeditions for those particularly adventurous No Man's Sky players missing them. Like October's The Cursed (above), these undertakings will pose new threats and obstacles to overcome, as well as rewarding the successful with unique, limited-time gear...
News PS5 Pro Has One of Its First 8K Games in No Man's Sky
8K at 30FPS, plus a 4K 60fps mode
Sony might not be shipping the PS5 Pro with an 8K logo on its outer packaging, but that doesn't stop a handful of titles from supporting the 7680 x 4320 resolution. Gran Turismo 7 was previously announced as one game with an 8K mode on PS5 Pro, and now Hello Games has added No Man's Sky to the list. At launch, from...
News New No Man's Sky Event Gives You an Alien UFO for Halloween
PS5 Pro details also coming soon
Hello Games will celebrate Halloween in style this month in the form of a new time-limited No Man's Sky event known as The Cursed. It goes live today and will be available for three weeks, and sees space explorers turn their normal ship into an alien UFO to explore "haunted worlds" housing new enemies and boss...
News PS5 Pro 'Absolutely Rocks', According to No Man's Sky Engine Programmer
More positive impressions
According to Martin Griffiths, the Engine Programmer at No Man’s Sky developer Hello Games, the PS5 Pro “absolutely rocks”. In a post on X (or Twitter), he explained that he’s “been through all PlayStation iterations” and appears to have a very favourable impression of this one. And yes, No Man’s Sky is on the...
News New Fishing Mechanic the Highlight of Next No Man's Sky PS5, PS4 Update
Aquarius also brings fishing logs, equipment
Hello Games has today revealed another new feature for No Man's Sky, arriving in its next PS5, PS4 update: fishing. Due to the game's community really taking to the recently implemented water technology in the Worlds Part I content update — with fans posting pictures of themselves relaxing by the...
News No Man's Sky: Worlds Part I Responsible for Nearly 500% Increase in PS5, PS4 Players
Ponies take a lookie-loo
No Man's Sky's big Worlds Part I refresh dropped just last week, free for all players, and in that time, an astronomical number of PS5 players returned to check out the difference. Not bad for an almost decade-old game, eh? As observed by The Gamer, the update caused not only a spike in players on Steam (which enjoyed its...
Random Seven Years Later, No Man's Sky's Reputation Is Slowly Improving
"Guys, we might hit Very Positive one day"
No Man's Sky has become synonymous with ambitious developer overreach, a cautionary tale of what can happen when publishers do nothing to reign in out-of-control hype. When the game was released in 2016 and failed to meet sky-high expectations set in no small part by Hello Games director Sean Murray...
News Seismic Free No Man's Sky Update Transforms Space Stations on PS5, PS4
A whole new world
For the next free update in the ever-expanding No Man’s Sky, industrious developer Hello Games has completely rebuilt space stations. As it notes in a press release, previously these were one aspect of the game which weren’t procedurally generated, but when the update launches later today (27th March), that will all change...
News No Man's Sky's PSVR2 Visuals Take a Massive Leap with Foveated Rendering
See space more clearly
Hello Games’ unprecedented ongoing commitment to No Man’s Sky has continued this week with its enormous Echoes update, adding an entirely new alien race and massively expanded space-based combat. But one other feature buried in the patch notes is the inclusion of foveated rendering for PSVR2, which has had a colossal...
